1923 in Belgium
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Albert I
- Prime Minister â Georges Theunis
Events
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- 23 May â Sabena is founded at Brussels Airport
- 23 September â 12th Gordon Bennett Cup held in Brussels
Publications
- Periodicals
- Annales de la Société d'archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 31.[1]
- Annales de la Société d'émulation de Bruges: revue trimestrielle pour l'étude de l'histoire et des antiquités de la Flandre, vol. 66.[2]
- Books
- Jean Haust, Ãtymologies wallonnes et françaises (Liège and Paris, H. Vaillant-Carmanne and Ãdouard Champion)[3]
- Maurits Sabbe, Christopher Plantin, translated by Alice Van Riel-Göransson (Antwerp, J.-E. Buschmann)[4]
- Camille Tihon, La Principauté et le Diocèse de Liège sous Robert de Bergues, 1557-1564 (Université de Liège)
Art and architecture
- Buildings
- Eagle, Star & British Dominions Insurance Company office building ("British Dominions House") in Antwerp
- Work starts on Victor Horta's Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels (completed 1929)
- Paintings
- Gustave De Smet, De mosseleters (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp)
Births
- 2 April â Georges Octors, conductor (died 2020)
Deaths
- 12 August â Victor Harou, explorer (born 1851)
- 1 December â Virginie Loveling, Flemish poet and novelist (born 1836)[5]
